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+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Support and Bug Reports
+---Topic: What to do about non-standard characters started by calberga
Posted by: calberga on June 29 2007,17:33
I recently obtained some mp3 files of Serbian music. When I play it using the Quintessential Player the titles show with a number of characters which are not in the Latin1 character set, but when I look at the files in mp3/TagStudio the characters are either missing or changed. When I write the titles to a file from mp3/TS similar things happen (although the replacements are not the same). Is there any way to manipulate these files without losing the correct titles?
I can't comment on what other programs do or don't do, as this is the only tagging program I have installed.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on July 02 2007,12:06
Sadly, there is currently no Unicode support in Mp3/Tag Studio, no.
This is what's causing this.
Posted by: calberga on July 02 2007,20:40
So, does this mean that the only way that I can record the correct titles is pencil and paper? Do you (or anyone on the forum) know of a program which could extract the titles for safe keeping until there is a means to replace them?
Or, if I simply don't touch the title field, but make other changes to the tags, will the current values be preserved?
Posted by: Magnus Brading on July 03 2007,09:03
No, you cannot write to a single field and preserve other fields with unicode content. (this should not be mixed up with support for unicode encoded tags that still have ASCII contents, which will work just fine, it is just the non-ascii contents in fields that are not supported).
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